Saturday, October 17, 2015. Chaos and violence continue, Tony Blairs
lies leak out, Hillary and Colin are caught with their pants down,
Eleanor Smeal embraces (and engulfs) war and destruction, and much more.

"Save the cheerleader, save the world," NBC's Heroes insisted throughout
its original run but the imprisonment and/or death of at least one
cheerleader might have saved the world -- at least when that cheerleader
was Tony Blair.

War Criminal Blair lied to the Iraq Inquiry when he testified just a few
years ago but he's been lying since 2002. He's a War Criminal and he's
a liar.

As Millward reminds, a year before the start of the Iraq War, Tony Blair
was lying to the world by insisting the efforts were towards a
diplomatic solution. Millward also reports, "A second memo says that Mr
Blair used spies within the Labour party to help influence public
opinion in favour of the war."

Tony Blair is exposed as the liar he always was, yes.

But it also exposes two other liars: Colin Powell and Hillary Clinton.

Yet Rachel is held up as a truth teller when all she's ever been is a
little liar. She was for the Iraq War -- she was even calling for it to
continue when Air America Radio started and repeatedly insisted on air
that "if you break it, you own it. That's the Pottery Barn policy."
But it wasn't the Pottery Barn policy and Iraqis -- the owners of Iraq,
please grasp -- were not asking US forces to stay in Iraq.

But a liar like Rachel, a corporate whore, just sets up her own end. So
she lied when Lizz Winstead walked from Unfiltered and told people Lizz
was just sick. She lied about the fact that Unfiltered had only a
month left and that they would be replaced by trash TV merchant Jerry
Springer. She had her father being a sock puppet on the Unfiltered
message board. And she was paid off for her lies by getting her own Air
America Radio show.

To get her MSNBC show, she insisted to AP that Chris Matthews was sexist
and then, when informed she'd have her own show, she carried out her
tit-for-tat part of the agreement by insisting Chris Matthews was not a
sexist.

Chris Matthews is a sexist.

This was a known reality long before Rachel used the charge in 2008 to leverage her own show.

But not according to Rachel.

She's a liar who'll say anything and only the ridiculous idiots at The
Nation magazine will pretend otherwise and pretend that her corporate
and centrist politics are at all left -- she's actually about as left as
Joe Lieberman.

The same woman (who along with Lizz -- sorry, Lizz) refused to have war
resisters on Unfiltered continues to preach and promote policies and
candidates who are not left.

She's the perfect foil for Hillary Clinton's campaign of destruction that runs right through the White House.

She (ghost)wrote that bad book Hard Choices Easy Whoring and supposedly that told the truth about Iraq.

Supposedly.

Turns out the whore can't stop lying about Iraq.

She'll say anything, put her name to any text someone else writes, because she's a dishonest liar.

And she and Colin are now exposed as the eternal liars they both are.

For years now, both gutter dwellers have insisted they were misled -- by intel, by this, by that.

They're just liars who cover up for other damn liars.

From liars and cheerleaders to beauty queens . . .

Iraq is scheduled to hold the county's first Miss Iraq pageant since 1972. Alexander Smith (NBC News) reports
that over "150 women have applied" to compete but "15 hopefuls have
already dropped out amid a barrage of criticism -- and even death
threats." Meg Warner (New York Daily News) explains,
"The 2015 pageant won’t be a direct copy of its Western counterparts --
for example, the swimsuit round will be replaced with a segment
featuring more conservative outfits -- but still sticks to the
requirements that would make the winner eligible to compete in Miss Arab
and potentially Miss World. Following those regulations, Miss Iraq
hopefuls will not wear headscarves."

A pro-Shi'ite Muslim television channel warned
this month that the event would corrupt public morals and "create a
base culture while our people face the danger of terrorism".
It
accused the organizers of being Freemasons, a loaded insult in the
Middle East where the secretive, fraternal organization is widely seen
as pro-Zionist and hostile to Islam.

Reuters has a photo here of Wijdan Burhan al-Deen who was crowned Miss Iraq in 1972 and competed in the Miss Universe Contest.

The hope is that the pageant will be a step forward for Iraq and, specifically, for Iraqi women.

But allegedly filled with remorse over what her support of the Iraq War
did to Iraq, Hillary hasn't bothered to even note this possible pageant.
This despite many noting her non-stop references to her gender.

There's a world of difference between self-obsession and feminism.

Hillary trying to garner support by insisting her being a first elevates
all women is a bit hard to believe when her entire campaign is about
I-I-I and me-me-me.

Feminism?

Gray, ugly and disappointing, 76-year-old 'feminist' Eleanor Smeal
(mis)used her position at the laughable Feminist Majority Foundation and
as publisher of the now-embarrassing Ms. magazine to promote war this
week. If that's news to you, see "Eleanor Smeal, Ms. magazine and the Feminist Majority Foundation embrace war" and you'll find a link there for Smeal's trash that we linked to Friday only in fairness and that we won't link to again.

Ellie's sexually excited and delighted that US President Barack Obama
broke another promise and has decided to extend the Afghanistan War
beyond 2017 (he leaves office in January 2017).

Ellie finger-banged herself relentlessly at the prospect of more years for US troops in Afghanistan.

War in Afghanistan is the longest in US history & there’s no end in sight. Time to recognize there is no military solution. #StopEndlessWar

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But Eleanor Smeal feels differently. Having created her own
organization (because she couldn't work with others) and used that
organization to destroy Ms. magazine (non-profit is the biggest
political con job there is -- and effectively silences your voice which
is why more and more left activist oppose the move), she now wants to
make clear that she supports US airstrikes on Afghanistan hospitals.

Continuing the Afghanistan War also means continuing The Drone War in Afghanistan (and elsewhere). Eleanor's a-okay with that.

While the drone crashes, the US and others continue to drop bombs on Iraq.

This includes the government of Turkey which violates Iraq's sovereignty
with these bombings as well as with on the ground raids. US-installed
Haider al-Abadi, like a good puppet, has learned to be silent on these
actions. But all the silence in the world will not sugar coat the
destruction Turkey's war planes are carrying out.

Turkey
continues to conduct airstrikes against the Kurdistan Workers Party
(PKK) in spite of the unilateral ceasefire brought forth by the PKK. As
the bombings go on, Turkey has scheduled critical elections less than
three weeks away.The announcement of the PKK’s ceasefire offer
came immediately after the largest attack in Turkey’s modern history. On
10 October, two suicide bombers blew themselves up at a peace rally in
Ankara, only five days after Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met
EU leaders in Brussels to discuss the situation of Syria's refugees. In
return for keeping Syrian refugees from reaching Europe, Erdoğan is
asking the EU to support his war on the PKK.Civilians, however,
have bared the brunt in this war. Most of the casualties have been
non-combatants, and a significant portion of those killed never took up
arms against Turkey, but instead fought the Islamic State (IS) group in
Syria and Iraq.

We're closing with the following regarding Barack's extension of war on Afghanistan:

“The
U.S. and NATO occupy my country under the name of all the beautiful
banners of democracy, women’s rights, human rights. And for this long
time, they shed the blood of our people under the name of the war on
terror…” —Malalai Joya

President Obama’s decision to leave actually ending, as opposed to
officially “ending,” the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan to his successor
(barring Congress developing the nerve and the decency to act)
illustrates our collective and his personal failure to overcome what
candidate Obama once called the mindset that gets us into wars. The idea
that year 15 or year 16 is going to go better in Afghanistan than the
first 14 years have gone is based on no evidence whatsoever, but merely
the hope that something will change combined with a misguided and
arrogant sense of responsibility to control someone else’s country. As
numerous Afghans have been saying for nearly 14 years, Afghanistan will
be a disaster when the U.S. occupation ends, but it will be a larger
disaster the longer it takes to do so.

This longest-ever U.S. war since the destruction of the Native American
nations is, when measured in deaths, dollars, destruction, and numbers
of troops and weapons, far more President Obama’s war than President
Bush’s. Yet President Obama has been given credit for “ending” it,
without actually ending it, for nearly seven years, including while he
was more than tripling the U.S. troop presence. The idea that escalating
a war helps to end it, built on myths and distortions about past wars
(Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Iraq “surge”), has to be set aside after
these many years of failure. The pretense that a military can both end
and not end the occupation of another people’s country by shifting to
“non-combat” troops (even while bombing a hospital) must be abandoned.

The view that further war, in particular with drones, is counterproductive on its own terms is shared with us by
—U.S. Lt. General Michael Flynn,
who quit as head of the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) in
August 2014: “The more weapons we give, the more bombs we drop, that
just… fuels the conflict.”
—Former CIA Bin Laden Unit Chief Michael Scheuer, who says the more the United States fights terrorism the more it creates terrorism.
—The CIA, which finds its own drone program “counterproductive.”
—Admiral Dennis Blair, the former director of National Intelligence: While “drone attacks did help reduce the Qaeda leadership in Pakistan,” he wrote, “they also increased hatred of America.”
—Gen. James E. Cartwright,
the former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: “We’re seeing
that blowback. If you’re trying to kill your way to a solution, no
matter how precise you are, you’re going to upset people even if they’re
not targeted.”
—Sherard Cowper-Coles, Former U.K. Special Representative To Afghanistan: “For every dead Pashtun warrior, there will be 10 pledged to revenge.”
—Matthew Hoh,
Former Marine Officer (Iraq), Former US Embassy Officer (Iraq and
Afghanistan): “I believe it’s [the escalation of the war/military
action] only going to fuel the insurgency. It’s only going to reinforce
claims by our enemies that we are an occupying power, because we are an
occupying power. And that will only fuel the insurgency. And that will
only cause more people to fight us or those fighting us already to
continue to fight us.” — Interview with PBS on Oct 29, 2009
—General Stanley McChrystal: “For every innocent person you kill, you create 10 new enemies.”

Afghanistan need not be “abandoned.” The United States owes Afghanistan
reparations in the form of significant actual aid, the cost of which
would of course be less than that of continuing the war.

The U.S. air strikes on the Kunduz hospital have generated more
attention than many other U.S. atrocities committed in Afghanistan. Yet
horrific attacks have been the mainstay of this war which was begun
illegally and without U.N. authorization. The motivation of revenge for
9-11 is not a legal justification for war, and also ignores the
Taliban’s offer to have bin Laden face trial in a third country. This
war has killed many thousands of Afghans, tortured and imprisoned,
wounded and traumatized many more. The top cause of death among members
of the U.S. military who have gone to Afghanistan is suicide. We
shouldn’t allow continuation of this madness to be depicted as
reasonable and cautious. It is criminal and murderous. A third U.S.
president should be given no opportunity to continue “ending” this war
for additional years.